Every Which Way Quilt

Welcome back to the Bake Shop! I’m here with a fun, easy to do large-block quilt made with some of the fabulous Moda Grunge fabrics. These are such fun fabrics to work with. They can be used as solids, but the slight variations in them keep things interesting. I think they work well in this particular format, and I hope you enjoy this project.

For the arrow color, turn the fat quarter with the long edge towards you.

Cut two strips 3.5 inches wide x 18 inches long

Cut 9 squares at 3.5 inches

For the hexagon color, turn the fat quarter with the long edge towards you.

Cut two strips 3.5 inches wide x 18 inches long

Cut 8 squares at 3.5 inches

For the corner color, turn the fat quarter with the long edge towards you.

Cut two strips 3.5 inches wide x 18 inches long

Cut four squares at 3.5 inches

From the background fabric

Use six 3.5 inch stripes

Use 4 3.5 inch squares

We are going to use the Strip Tube ruler to make all of the half-square triangles. I find it to be an excellent tool for making multiple similar HST’s.

Match up a background strip with each of your colored strips.

Sew along each edge with a 1/4 inch seam allowance, forming a tube.

Press with starch. The HST’s will have edges along the bias, so the starch is essential for helping to keep the squares squared.

Find the 3 1/2 inch mark on your Strip Tube ruler. Line it up with the seam on one side of your tube, and cut along either side.

Turn the ruler over, and align the 3 1/2 inch line with the seam on the opposite side of the tube.

Save the end pieces; some can be used again.

You should get six HST’s from each tube. Some will be used in the sashing, and either save the remainder for another project, or use in a pieced back.

Repeat with each color in your square. Arrange into your block.

I assembled these blocks using the “web” method. Take the two left blocks from the top row, and stitch together. DO NOT cut the string; insert the two left pieces from the 2nd row into the machine, and continue chain piecing until you’ve sewn together the two left pieces from all seven rows. Without cutting any of these apart, start back at the first row, and sew on the pieces in the third column, chain piecing the way down.

You’ll end up with the block held together in rows.

Press the seam allowances in opposite directions.

Nesting the seams, sew together the rows into a completed block.

Repeat until you have nine blocks. Each block should measure 21.5 inches square.

For the sashing between each block; take an extra of the HST for each of the two arrow colors in the blocks you’re connecting. Lay them right sides together, with the seams nested and a background against a color on each half.

Draw a line from corner to corner, at a right angle to the seam on the HST. Trim the seam allowance to 1/4 inch and press open.

Cut two pieces of background fabric to 9.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Attach one to either side of the hourglass block you just made, with the background portions of the hourglass block sewn to the background strips.

Make an hourglass block/sashing strip between the three blocks in each of the three rows, and assemble the rows.

To attach the three rows together, make hourglass blocks to connect the arrow pieces. Cut two sashing strips at 3.5×9.5 inches, and two sashing strips at 3.5X2.15 inches. Sew together:

Marly, I just find it to be quicker, but you could use any ruler you’re comfortable with, as long as the HST’s end at 3.5 inches (3 inches in quilt). There is extra in each Fat Quarter after cutting, so you have some flexibility.

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